IDC’s annual IT spending forecast is summarized below. Big winners: Worldwide tech spending: 5% increase Cloud Computing will surge by 25% Big Data will enjoy a 30% increase Summary article by David Weldon in FierceCIO, original by Connie Guglielmo in Forbes. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– Get Ready for IT in 2014 Expect the …
Beware Ye, AWS Buyer
Buyer beware: if it sounds to good to be true, it probably is. You never get more than what you pay for — and sometimes you don’t even get what you pay for. There’s usually a reason why something is cheap. By Beth Pariseau in SearchCloudComputing. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ———– AWS fends off …
FUD: Good for IT Budgets, Bad for CyberSecurity
Why bother battening the hatches and remaining resilient when… THE BAD GUYS ARE COMING TO GET US !?!? Tried-and-trusted risk management approaches are just way too passe when…DANGER LURKS IN EVERY LINK! Article by Warwick Ashford in ComputerWeekly. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——— Fear of cyber attack driving a shift from risk-based security, says …
IT Outsourcing Webinar & Whitepaper
Keys to Successful IT Outsourcing for the Intelligent CIO AIS commissioned Joseph Kleinpeter, PhD — a highly experienced IT outsourcing expert — to write a 3-part whitepaper and deliver a webinar on what YOU should be thinking about when outsourcing IT infrastructure and services. During this webinar Dr. Kleinpeter will describe the “what, why, and how” of approaching IT outsourcing. …
CyberSecurity Webinar & Whitepaper
CyberSecurity: In-House vs. Managed Services AIS commissioned Matthew McCormack — one of the most noteworthy, experienced cybersecurity experts on the planet — to write a whitepaper and deliver a webinar on what YOU can do to protect your business. During this webinar Mr. McCormack describes the “what, why, and how” of looking at in-house vs. managed service providers for cybersecurity. …
Outsourcing Security: It’s Practical, Not Heresy
In the perfect world we would have enough time, money, and intellectual energy to do everything (that we care about) ourselves. Get real and face the fact that no amount of working hard to “catch up and get ahead” will ever get you (or me) anywhere near where we’d need to be to do it all. But we do have …
Cybersecurity: Learn or Hire
If you were starting to think that all the talk about cyber security has been a bit overblown, think again. In the Internet of Things — where everything has network connectivity — anything can be hacked that does not have proper security in place. Even a baby monitor, evidently. This doesn’t mean that we’ll never be secure; it just means …
Compliance: Do As I Say, Not As I Do
Pop quiz: Do people in power always follow the rules established for their organizations? Bonus question: Are these same people in power the ones we ask (demand, really) to sign attestations that their organizations are doing everything that they are supposed to be doing from a compliance perspective? Interesting topic because it combines “Do as I say, not as I …
Gartner Updated IT Spending Forecast
Everybody wants to know the score — the game, the poll, the election, the vote, and the economy. Gartner is a well-respected source when it comes to IT infrastructure market sizing. Sound-bite summary: mobile devices and cloud services up, PC sales down, overall slow growth. Article by Paul Mah in FierceCIO, original article by Melissa Lewelling in CRN. Emphasis in …
Enterprises Spend HOW MUCH on Storage?
This is a short but practical (and relevant) article on a survey conducted by NaviSite. The contents speak for themselves. Article by Nicole Henderson in The WHIR. Emphasis in red added by me. Brian Wood, VP Marketing ——– Enterprises Spend 25 Percent of IT Budgets on Data Storage: NaviSite Study Most companies allocate 25 percent of their IT budget to …
